Re: 87 Coupe GT starting, MPG malfunction

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <3616BD17.F475D32@umit.maine.edu> Brian Raymond writes:

> I was wondering what causes the average miles to gallon and mailes to
> empty to mess up.. I just got my car a week ago and they worked fine. I
> put in some fuel injector cleaner and about a day later the mailes per
> gallon started reading 255 and the miles to empty 1515 (max value I
> assume). My car also won't start now when its cold out, it takes like 5
> min to start and once it does it won't accelerate at all for a couple of
> minutes.. Does anyone know what happened???

Un the ur-quattro's computers, "1515" means the air mass sensor
potentiometer is open-circuit.  Has the connector fallen off?

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